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Chapter 780 The Tartar Movement

As the Fujian side was invaded by the puppet Tang rebel army, and the rebel army even penetrated deep into southern Zhejiang, the situation in the prosperous place south of the Yangtze River instantly became tense.

This kind of tension is not an unfounded worry of Jiangnan officials and gentry, but a real existence, because the puppet Tang rebel army not only appeared in southern Zhejiang.

At the same time, small-scale thief reconnaissance troops can be seen frequently in Chizhou Prefecture. There are even traces of thief reconnaissance cavalry near Yingtian Prefecture. Even in places such as Anqing Prefecture on the north bank of the Yangtze River, there are also thief troops.

traces.

As for all this, anyone with a little bit of military knowledge knows that the puppet Tang rebel army on the opposite side is already preparing for a large-scale attack.

Once this fight breaks out, I'm afraid the entire Jiangnan will be plunged into flames of war.

People are in panic. This is the best portrayal of the officials, gentry and people in the south of the Yangtze River.

Especially in the two cities of Jinling and Hangzhou, the officials and gentry in the cities were even more frightened, because they also knew that once a war broke out, it was difficult to say about other places, but these two cities would definitely be the key places for the puppet Tang rebels to attack.

Especially Jinling, this city has huge political, economic and cultural significance in Jiangnan and even the entire southern region. If the rebels want to move into Jiangnan, Jinling City must be captured.

As the top person in charge of the Jiangnan House, the Crown Prince Taibao, the Minister of War in Nanjing, and the superintendent of military affairs in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places, Wang Yiqi has been having trouble sleeping recently.

Ordinary people felt that the situation was unusual and that a storm was coming, but Wang Yiqi, who had more information, knew that a large-scale attack by the bandits was imminent.

Feedback from the troops in Anqing and Chizhou showed that various reconnaissance units of the rebel army were frequently active. This was obviously to investigate the terrain and the deployment of the Ming army in advance, and to formulate offensive routes for subsequent large-scale attacks.

The situation reported from Jiangxi also showed that the Puppet Tang rebel ships loaded with ordnance and ammunition were not transported to Nanchang and other places one by one, but were sent to Nanchang one fleet at a time.

A businessman even saw with his own eyes at the dock outside Nanchang City, cannonballs carried by many ships were piled up on the dock, as tall as a hill!

The rain is coming!

In order to defend the south of the Yangtze River, Wang Yiqi also used all the methods he could think of to turn Anqing into a fortress. At the same time, he built fortifications in Jinling City, recruited countless young men to build forts, thickened and raised the city walls, and cleaned and deepened the moat.

At the same time, 30,000 Jiangnan new troops were dispatched to Zhejiang to reinforce Yu Dayou.

In the Yingtian Mansion area, he gathered most of his main force, more than 60,000 Jiangnan New Army, 20,000 elite border troops, and even 4,000 cavalry among them!

In Anqing, he dispatched 20,000 new troops to the south of the Yangtze River, and also built a large-scale Jiang defense fort.

On the front lines of Anqing, Yingtian Prefecture, and Chizhou Prefecture, the main force of the border troops and the Jiangnan New Army alone numbered more than 100,000. In addition, there were also miscellaneous guard soldiers and more than 50,000 young and strong people recruited temporarily.

A total of 150,000 troops are ready!

However, even so, he still doesn't have much confidence. He is no longer the same person as he was when he first arrived in Jiangnan last year. When he first arrived in Jiangnan last year, he thought that although the puppet Tang rebel army could fight, as long as he

Be cautious and there shouldn't be any major problems.

But in last year's Jiangxi campaign, especially the Ming army's siege of Nanchang, he was personally present and truly saw how difficult the puppet Tang rebels were.

If you want to fight against the puppet Tang rebels, even if you rely on a fortified city to defend it, it will be impossible to defend it without two or three times the number of troops and a large number of artillery.

And these troops must be exclusively the New Army or the Frontier Army, and no matter how many garrison troops there are in the south, they are of little use.

Due to lack of confidence, he on the one hand strengthened the defense on his own, and on the other hand he urgently asked for help from the northern court, and also asked Zhang Yue for assistance.

However, at this time, even if Emperor Zhengde reinforced Wang Yiqi, it was actually beyond his capabilities. Although the northern provinces of Shandong, Beizhili, Henan and other provinces had already begun to organize and train the new army, they were combined with the Beijing camp to train the new army.

There are tens of thousands of new troops.

However, nearly 20,000 people were successively transferred south to reinforce Wang Yiqi and became part of Wang Yiqi's Jiangnan New Army.

The border army has successively mobilized no less than 40,000 people to go south. The number of the border army is also limited. At the same time, it is necessary to guard against the Anada Khan in the north. This Anada Khan was also a generational hero. He led his tribe to fight for decades and succeeded.

He expelled the Mongolian Khan Dalaisun Kuden Khan to the east of the Xing'an Mountains, completing a certain degree of unification of the Mongolian region.

The Tatars commanded by this man were a great threat to the Ming Dynasty. In the early years, they continued to have wars with the Ming Dynasty. In the past two years, the Ming Dynasty suffered a great loss in strength due to the rise of the puppet Tang Dynasty, so Ananda Khan also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity.

And entering, last year I tried to attack Datong Mansion, but the result was quite funny.

Originally, they wanted to take advantage of the situation, but they didn't expect that the frontier troops in Datong Prefecture had been upgraded and equipped with a large number of guns. As a result, they suffered a bloody blow in Datong.

Although the Ming army could not defeat the puppet Tang rebel army, it was still quite good at suppressing various rebellions and Tatar invasions.

However, even if it could be defended, a large number of troops would still be tied up in the border town.

In the past few years, the Ming Dynasty actually built a large number of guns and cannons in the northern provinces, but half of them were equipped for the frontier armies, and the remaining half were equipped for the Beijing camp and the new armies of the northern provinces.

However, although he lost a game last year, Andahan did not give up. The weak Ming Dynasty could not be encountered at any time. If he did not take advantage of the opportunity to make a profit now, he would not be able to help himself, so recently the borders of various places have

The military is also under great pressure.

Today, the Ming Dynasty's troops in several northern provinces are very tight. Otherwise, Emperor Zhengde would have sent more troops southward.

However, even though it was difficult, Emperor Zhengde still knew that the important territory south of the Yangtze River could not be lost, so he still searched for troops everywhere, and finally gathered 20,000 reinforcements to go south to reinforce Wang Yiqi, but it would probably be several months before they arrived in the south of the Yangtze River.

Now the only person who can provide practical support to Wang Yiqi is actually Zhang Yue. This support does not mean that Zhang Yue directly sends reinforcements to the south of the Yangtze River. The journey is too far, and there is a puppet Tang bandit army in the middle. Zhang Yue's troops want to

It is difficult to reinforce Jiangnan.

But they can directly launch a counterattack to contain the forces of the puppet Tang rebel army.

As long as Zhang Yue can contain more troops of the puppet Tang rebels, Wang Yiqi's pressure will be relatively relieved.

But does Zhang Yue dare to counterattack?

Counterattack is nothing. After Zhang Yue received Wang Yiqi's letter asking him to launch a counterattack, he immediately burned the letter. Are you kidding? It's okay for him to rely on the Yangtze River natural chasm to defend, but asking him to cross the river to counterattack would not allow him to

Counterattack, but let him die!

The puppet Tang rebel army has accumulated heavy troops in Yuezhou, Wuchang, Jiujiang and other places. Let’s not say whether our army can cross the river. Even if we can successfully cross the river, how many people will it take to successfully counterattack? Here we go

Can you still come back?

Zhang Yue doesn't have much confidence in this.

This is not because he was afraid of being beaten by the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty, but because he had been fighting with the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty for several years. Although he was always defeated, in terms of understanding of the army of the puppet Tang Dynasty, only one person in the entire Ming Dynasty knew about the army of the puppet Tang Dynasty.

He knows best.

If you want to counterattack, you can't hope for more than three times the number of troops, and this is the most elite supervisor under his command.

As the area under the control of the puppet Tang bandit army gradually increased, and the number of troops increased, the current Ming Dynasty actually became more and more difficult to fight as it got older. Two years ago, it was still able to guard Huguang and Jiangxi, but these two places

After being captured by the puppet Tang rebel army, if you want to defend it, you can only rely on the Yangtze River natural moat.

As for Jiangnan, Zhang Yue doesn't think it can be defended!

Although he knew that once Jiangnan was lost, it would cause a huge chain reaction, but if we really talk about it carefully, it would actually have little impact on his supervision and military training, because his supervision and military training basically did not rely on the supply of the imperial court.

, it’s none of his business if Jiangnan loses it.

Currently, Sichuan and Hubei are still supporting his army, so these two places are also his key defense areas.

Sichuan was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but he dispatched a full force of 20,000 troops early to guard Chongqing Prefecture, Bozhou and other places.

Since the terrain is quite complex and supplies for both sides are very difficult, the fighting between the two sides has gradually evolved into the same situation as in Yunnan. Small-scale battles are frequent, but large battles cannot be fought. This kind of battle,

Regardless of whether it is the puppet Tang rebel army or his supervisor Biao Yi's military training, it is quite difficult to fight.

Of course, the reason why the battles in Yunnan and Sichuan were in a stalemate, apart from the objective reasons of terrain restrictions and supply difficulties, was actually because these two places were not the main offensive direction of the Tang Dynasty.

Although there is a Fourth Infantry Division in Yunnan, this Fourth Infantry Division has not been able to complete its reorganization until now. It lacks guns and ammunition, and the replenishment of ammunition is intermittent. Even the replenishment of new recruits is relatively difficult.

Since Yunnan, the strength of the Fourth Infantry Division has never been full. After all, the supply priority of the Fourth Infantry Division has always been very low within the Tang Army.

There are not many troops marching into Sichuan now, there are only the 7th Mixed Regiment and one regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division, and their supply priority is also very low.

You know, the Tang Army's supply priority to the First Army is not high now, and most of the ammunition supplies are given priority to the Second Army and the Third Army.

Lack of ammunition supplies and even insufficient personnel meant that the war was naturally timid and made little progress.

And this is also a major drawback of the Tang Army, that is, it relies heavily on guns and artillery during combat. Once supplies are not smooth, the combat effectiveness will be reduced instantly in a battle.

The puppet Tang rebels were not active in attacking Yunnan and Sichuan, which allowed Zhang Yue to always ensure control of these two places. Now, when he realized that Jiangnan might not be able to be maintained, he became even more concerned about the safety of Sichuan.

Begin to send a large number of confidants into Sichuan.

Among them is Song Zhiwen!

Song Zhiwen went to Sichuan, naturally not to fight. In Zhang Yue's view, Song Zhiwen's fighting skills were average, but his ability to make guns and train troops was not bad, so he asked Song Zhiwen to go to Sichuan to make guns and train troops.


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